This book offers tips on how to accurately capture the anatomy, colors and textures of specific animals, along with insight on how to study and photograph them, recommendations on the best art tools and materials to use, and guidance through the entire painting process.

Presents preliminary sketching, composition, texture, colors, seasonal variations, lighting, habitat, pose and perspective in sixteen step by step demonstration paintings.

Capturing the details is what makes wildlife painting come alive. Getting the fur, facial features and anatomy right with subjects that refuse to stand still adds to the challenge. Artist's Photo Reference: Wildlife saves the day by allowing you to concentrate on what's important - creating great art. Artist and photographer Bart Rulon provides hundreds of gorgeous full-color images showcasing nearly four dozen animals from a variety of angles. Each one has been taken with the needs of the artist in mind, ensuring that you save time, effort, money and worry. Stop wasting hours combing through endless magazines and books. You'll find all the high-quality reference photos you need right here! Rulon also provides guidelines for taking your own reference photos, plus five demonstrations in a variety of media, that illustrate how professional wildlife artists create extraordinary works of art by painting from photographs. Wildlife is the perfect addition to your reference library! Use it to save time, get inspired and create beautiful art of your own.

Easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations in acrylic, watercolor and oil Inside, you'll learn how to create realistic wildlife paintings, step by step, mastering dozens of specific wildlife textures, including: • Fur of a bobcat, American bison, snow leopard cub and wolf • Feathers of a wood duck, white-throated sparrow and northern shoveler • Scales of a trout and sunfish • Ears of a cottontail rabbit, white-tailed deer and red fox • Bills and Muzzles of a northern cardinal, mallard, great blue heron and mountain lion • Tails and Feet of a red squirrel, ruffled grouse and blue jay • Antlers and Horns of a deer, moose, bighorn sheep and pronghorn • White and Black Subjects such as a polar bear, tundra swan and Canada goose Through, you'll benefit from Rod Lawrence's years of wildlife painting experience. He'll help you notice, for example, the way hair and feature textures change on different parts of an animal's body through the seasons—and even according to the age of the animal. Use this heightened awareness, along with the easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations inside, to create more realistic, more sensitive wildlife paintings.

Presents step-by-step instructions for painting pictures of small animals, including rabbits and hares, squirrels, prairie dogs, foxes, raccoons, woodchucks, otters, ferrets, and small rodents.

In The Art of Painting Animals, aspiring painters will learn how to work with oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints to bring their favorite animals to life on paper or canvas. Each medium has its section that begins with an introduction, which includes a section of helpful information on basic tools and materials—including paints, brushes, appropriate supports, and additional materials—followed by a quick guide to techniques and artist tips for rendering animal features and fur, as well as natural textures such as bark and foliage. Talented artists guide readers through a series of easy-to-follow step-by-step projects covering a variety of subjects from pets and horses to wildlife and birds. Projects include a moose, a Shih Tzu dog, a fox, a deer, a lynx, and many more! Along the way, aspiring artists will find helpful tips and tricks for establishing a compelling composition, achieving accurate proportions, and developing expressive animal faces and emotions. With its breadth of content and instruction, The Art of Painting Animals is perfect for any animal-loving artist's collection.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.